The strange ‘conjecture’ I’ve had to battle myself with for many years was confirmed as true over the last few days—as the economic and social conditions in Ghana obtained unbearable status.
As expected, some Ghanaians wearing ‘the truth and honest’ cloak came out, took over social media and sent out unending messages—all capturing how tough and disappointing living in Ghana has become.
On Facebook, countless discussions erupted as Ghanaians probed the activities on the ruling Government in the face of the Ghana-Brazil ‘wahala’ among other internal developments.
I joined some of these discussions and others; I was forced to be part as people kept tagging me into the heated arguments. It was fun but more importantly, we were talking about conditions which could get worst if the Government did not swiftly act to address the problems, especially the petroleum crisis…
As a Ghanaian, I’ve come to realize that the words-honesty and accountability have different meanings to most Ghanaians. And to be frank, this is the underlying cause of our many increasing political, economic and social problems.
Being honest, truthful or accountable is understood differently by Ghanaians, depending on where the person stands—not ideologically or factually determined, but ‘pocketly’ understood.
No matter how obvious a bad situation is, there can never be a consensus among Ghanaians that, this is bad and we have to get it fixed. You will find a great number of people (Ghanaians) living under the same bad circumstance defending the indefensible with absurd arguments and propaganda tales—simply because they are part of the ‘chopping squad’ or have an agenda.
Let the table turn around and the tallest among the truth telling giants will all of a sudden become blind to the truth, ignoring what needs to be said because his or her pocket has been filled.
Today, we saw several Ghanaians taking to the street to register their displeasure in a form of a protest with the ruling Government being the target, for how bad the economy and life have become in the West African country.
Factually and honestly, things are bad in Ghana and every Ghanaian living within the borders of the country can feel it. It is like a scorching sun, you can feel it and you can see how others are sweating too. But as usual, there are some Ghanaians living in the same Ghana characterised by ‘no electricity, no water, no fuel, unpaid salaries, high inflation and the abysmal performance of the cedi’ who are dead RIGHT that the country is doing well—and that, there is nothing to complaint about.